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About the Role

Provide support to the Financial Accountant and Syndicate Finance Operations team to ensure efficient, controlled, and timely monthly and quarterly reporting. This role involves controlling and reconciling the Oracle ledger and assisting with daily workflow processes, focusing on transactions from Subscribe 2000, underwriting records, cash transactions, and challenging anomalies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain subledgers, ensuring accurate postings and reconciliations of balance sheet accounts during monthly and quarterly ledger close cycles.
• Assist in performing balance sheet substantiation procedures.
• Reconcile underwriting figures between Subscribe 2000 and Oracle.
• Prepare standard accounting journals, such as IPT adjustments and entries to clear and maintain subledgers.
• Assist in performing analytical reviews to gain insights into financial accounts supporting the reporting period's results.
• Stay updated with IFRS and UK GAAP accounting requirements for proper transaction recording.
• Contribute to the documentation of processes, risks, and controls.
• Contribute to process improvement and system enhancements within the finance function.
• Participate in ad hoc change and transformation projects.
• Support the wider UK Operations team in producing deliverables, especially during quarterly reporting.
• Assist the Settlement Working Group by obtaining reports, arranging meetings, challenging suspected breaches, and maintaining an action log.
• Coordinate information to assess potential breaches of premium trust rules.

Requirements

• Working towards ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent accounting qualification.
• Understanding of financial accounting.
• Demonstrate evidence of interpreting and manipulating data clearly and accurately.
• Proven track record of working in a deadline-driven environment.
• Good organizational skills including effective scheduling, prioritization, and time management.
• Proficiency in financial software (Microsoft Excel, accounting systems, and ERP).
• Good communication skills to articulate insights.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong controls and reconciliations experience.
• Understanding of the Lloyd’s Market and Service Companies (Desirable).
• Experience with using Oracle general ledgers (Desirable).
• Experience of Subscribe 2000 (Desirable).
• Experience with or interest in automation of finance processes (Desirable).

Skills

• Problem-solving
• Critical thinking
• Attention to detail
• Accuracy
• Microsoft Excel
• Accounting systems
• ERP systems
• Communication
• Analytical skills
• Controls
• Reconciliations

Location

• London

Work Type

• Fixed Term Contract
• Hybrid Working

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive base salary
• Performance related discretionary bonus

Benefits

• Link to employee benefits provided

About the Company

• MS Amlin is a leading (re)insurer and part of the global MS&AD Group, with operations across Lloyd’s of London, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
• With over 120 years of experience, we support businesses facing complex and demanding risks, providing continuity in an uncertain world.
• Our expertise covers Property, Casualty, Marine, Crisis Management, Natural Resources and Reinsurance, backed by strong underwriting capabilities and deep sector knowledge.
• At the core of our claims service is TRUST - Transparency, Responsiveness, Understanding, Solution-driven thinking, and Technical expertise.

Equal Opportunity

• We will build a workplace where all talent is welcomed, and everyone has the opportunity to influence how the business works.
• We have dedicated employee resource groups that support our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) goals.
• MS Amlin is proud to be one of the founding partners of Lloyd’s Inclusive Futures programme which aims to get more Black and ethnically diverse people into the insurance industry - supporting them all the way from the classroom to the boardroom.